Season 5 (1971)

Priest-Killer
6.0

September 14, 1971 • 2h

A police chief who is confined to a wheelchair and a former cop who is now a priest team up to discover who has been committing a ...Read more

Contract: Kill Ironside
0.0

September 21, 1971 • 1h

Due to give evidence, the Chief discovers that there is a contract out on his life, and that the chosen killer is a highly dedicat...Read more

The Professionals
0.0

September 28, 1971 • 1h

A phoney cab driver is taking men to so-called parties, where they are drugged and robbed; but when one of the victims winds up de...Read more

The Gambling Game
7.0

October 5, 1971 • 1h

After the murder of Police Captain Belding, his daughter, a rookie cop, is anxious to prove that the allegations of corruption aga...Read more

Ring of Prayer
0.0

October 12, 1971 • 1h

A prisoner is denied parole for no clear reason, and the Chief's investigations lead him to a woman who seems to have supernatural...Read more

In the Line of Duty
0.0

October 19, 1971 • 1h

A policeman is shot and killed by an assailant. The evidence points to the murderer being a local thief, currently enjoying a reig...Read more

Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells
0.0

October 26, 1971 • 1h

Chief Ironside's sponsored "daughter" arrives from Korea, intending to marry a fellow Korean now living in San Francisco. Before h...Read more

Murder Impromptu
6.0

November 2, 1971 • 1h

An actor/producer is murdered during a series of comic improvisations, and all of the actors present at the time seem to be suspec...Read more

Dear Fran
0.0

November 9, 1971 • 1h

Fran Belding's cousin Bobby commits suicide, and a note left behind seems to suggest that he could not live without her love. A se...Read more

If a Body See a Body
0.0

November 16, 1971 • 1h

On a day out with Mark, Ed finds a body in the park, but when Homicide arrives it has gone. Teased by his rival, Homicide Sergeant...Read more

Good Samaritan
0.0

November 23, 1971 • 1h

Ed is shot during a raid on a jewellery store, and his life is saved by a stranger who vanishes as soon as the authorities arrive ...Read more

Gentle Oaks
0.0

November 25, 1971 • 1h

A string of deaths at a convalescence home leads the Chief to go undercover as a patient, whose two children (Fran Belding and Ed)...Read more

License to Kill
0.0

December 2, 1971 • 1h

A policeman is killed, and his murderer is subsequently shot by the dead man's partner; and when it transpires that both officers ...Read more

Class of '57
0.0

December 16, 1971 • 1h

Ed discovers that a man sought on assault charges is Bernie Simmonds, a man who was in his class at school. Whilst pursuing the in...Read more

No Motive for Murder
0.0

December 23, 1971 • 1h

The son of an old friend, fearing that his father's life is in danger, asks the Chief to go to Tokyo. Once there Ironside finds hi...Read more

But When She Was Bad
0.0

December 30, 1971 • 1h

The Chief is sure that a man just released from prison is responsible for the murder of a policeman, but as determined as he is to...Read more

Unreasonable Facsimile
0.0

January 6, 1972 • 1h

A string of bank robberies are being committed, all with the exact hallmarks of a certain thief recently released from prison. Hav...Read more

Find a Victim
0.0

January 13, 1972 • 1h

A Mob numbers racket suffers a series of robberies, but is understandably unwilling to report the thefts. The Chief, feeling that ...Read more

And Then There Was One
0.0

January 20, 1972 • 1h

A military-issue fragmentation grenade is used in an attack on two Vietnam veterans, one of whom - a friend of Mark's - is killed....Read more

Death by the Numbers
0.0

January 27, 1972 • 1h

A string of murders is committed, and in each case the victim has a numbered disk in their possession. After number four is found ...Read more

Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Murder
8.0

February 3, 1972 • 1h

The small daughter of a friend of the Chief's dabbles in witchcraft, and becomes convinced that she is responsible for the death o...Read more

Achilles' Heel
0.0

February 17, 1972 • 1h

The son of a judge involved in a fraud case is framed for the murder of a young actress, in the hope that this will force a lighte...Read more

His Fiddlers Three
0.0

March 2, 1972 • 1h

A violin tutor at a conservatory in San Francisco is murdered, and the suspects include an eclectic mix of talented musicians. The...Read more

A Man Named Arno
0.0

March 9, 1972 • 1h

Alone in the office, Fran Belding is attacked by an escaped convict, and helped by a mystery man who refuses to tell her his name....Read more